Becoming Centered

Becoming Centered

Russ Bloch, MSW, MBA

Episodes 68
Avg. Duration 30m
Activity Highly Active
Apple Rating 5.0 (3)
Since Jul 2023
Latest Episode Mar 2026

Publishing Details

Schedule
Every 2 Weeks
Format
Serial
Consistency
59%
Hosting
rss.libsyn.com

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About This Podcast

This podcast is a field guide for professionals seeking perspectives and techniques for helping others find their balanced path. It's also for people who want to learn the self-counseling pathways, navigation tools, and practices to live a centered life. Organized into several series, this podcast focuses on: (1) understanding the territory of personal psychology, (2) tools and techniques for counseling others in how to develop a centered and balanced life, and (3) tools and techniques for navigating your own emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and self-regulation challenges.

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Recent Episodes

S3E68 68. Behavior-Management vs Feedback-Incentive Systems

Mar 29, 2026 30m

Episode 68 of the Becoming Centered Podcast expands on the topic of how to design interventions targeted at changing performative surface behaviors versus interventions designed to inspire inner…

S3E67 67. Performative vs Systemic Change

Mar 20, 2026 33m

Becoming Centered Podcast 67, "Performative vs Systemic Change" lays the groundwork for understanding how to design effective behavior-focused program structures that are intended to shape the…

S3E66 66. House Meeting6 - Parts & Treatment Objectives

Feb 23, 2026 32m

This episode of the Becoming Centered Podcast presents four major parts to a residential treatment program's House Meetings (a regularly scheduled meeting of staff and clients). Each part, (1)…

S3E65 65. House Meeting5 - Storming and Purpose

Jan 25, 2026 28m

Skillful facilitation of House Meetings is one of the most challenging, but also most impactful, aspects of providing a treatment experience. Developing a group of troubled kids into a…

S3E64 64. House Meeting4 - Emotional Sensitivity

Jan 11, 2026 29m

Running a residential unit for children and youth that goes beyond providing quality Care to also delivering an impactful Treatment experience requires staff to constantly focus on team-building.…

S3E63 63. House Meeting3 - Check-ins

Jan 01, 2026 30m

Episode 63 of the Becoming Centered Podcast focuses on how to facilitate Check-ins as part of a residential treatment program's House Meetings. Check-ins are an excellent way to start House Meetings.…

S3E62 62. House Meeting2 - Phases of Team Development

Dec 08, 2025 30m

Episode 62 of the Becoming Centered podcast is the second episode in an arc focused on House Meetings. In my experience, House Meetings are the single most effective group structure in the…

S3E61 61. House Meeting1 - Resilience & Skills Development

Nov 23, 2025 31m

Episode 61 of the Becoming Centered podcast starts an episode arc focused on the use of House Meetings in residential treatment programs. House Meetings are a structured meeting of all the residents…

S3E60 60. Care vs Treatment, Behavior Management, and Respect

Nov 10, 2025 31m

Episode 60 continues along the Group-Level Interventions Pathway. Building on the last episode, other foundational perspectives for going beyond only providing quality Care to providing…

S3E59 59. Season 3 - Overview and Intentions

Nov 02, 2025 30m

Episode 59 of the Becoming Centered podcast marks the start of Season 3. This Season will contain two learning pathways. One series will focus on working with kids in varying size groups. Group work…

S2E58 58. Supervision14 - Weekly Staff Meetings

Sep 17, 2025 32m

Episode 58 of the Becoming Centered Podcast provides a vision for how to design and facilitate an extremely challenging structure in residential treatment programs – the weekly unit staff meeting. …

S2E57 57. Supervision13 - Meeting Fundamentals

Aug 28, 2025 32m

I'm very excited about Episode 57 of the Becoming Centered podcast! It provides guidance in an area that most human service agencies simply can't fit into their training programs; how to design and…

S2E56 56. Supervision12 - Resilience pt.2

Jul 28, 2025 30m

Episode 56 of the Becoming Centered podcast is part two of a two-part arc focusing on the concept of resilience. Resilience is the ability to stay centered even in the face of various stressors and…

S2E55 55. Supervision11 - Resilience pt. 1

Jul 16, 2025 30m

Episode 55 of the Becoming Centered podcast focuses on the concept of resilience. Resilience is the ability to stay centered even in the face of various stressors and triggers. It's related to, but…

S2E54 54. Supervision10 - Choices, Breaks, Support Center, Physical Intervention

May 27, 2025 32m

Episode 54 concludes a four-episode arc, within the Unit Supervision Pathway, that presents the 10 techniques that make up the Hierarchy of Interventions. This episode focuses on how to implement…

S2E53 53. Supervision9 - Change Environment and Limit Setting

May 13, 2025 29m

Episode 53 reviews the first four tools and techniques that make up the Hierarchy of Interventions (Distraction, Engaging, Verbal Redirection, Labeling) and presents the next two steps in the…

S2E52 52. Supervision8 - The Aspect Compass and Labeling

Apr 01, 2025 30m

This episode is the second in a three-episode arc that presents the Hierarchy of Interventions. This grouping of 10 interventions forms a core curriculum of counseling skills used by residential…

S2E51 51. Supervision7 - The Hierarchy of Interventions

Mar 25, 2025 29m

This episode on the Unit Supervisor Learning Pathway moves away from a focus on managerial skills and switches to a focus on counseling skills to be taught to direct-care Child Care Counselors. It…

S2E50 50. Supervision6 - Leader, Superior, Boss, Mentor

Mar 18, 2025 26m

This episode is the sixth on the Unit Supervisor Learning Pathway. It's also the third of a three-episode arc that focuses on how to structure an individual supervision meeting. It also goes beyond…

S2E49 49. Supervision5 - Supervisor as Teacher and Coach

Mar 11, 2025 30m

This episode continues to present a model for how to structure a supervision meeting. Last episode focused on how a Unit Supervisor sometimes functions primarily as a Counselor. In that sub-role, the…

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Becoming Centered has published 68 episodes since July 2023, covering topics in Courses, Education.

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